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By Gloria Dulan-Wilson 

   ~I wonder if Marva Allen knew that she was the part of a growing trend when she announced that she was closing HueMan Book Store back in July of this year?

Activist and author, Dorothy Pitman-Hughes certainly nailed it with her recently completed book, “I'm Just Saying, It Looks Like Ethnic Cleansing,” when she pointed out the concerted effort on the part of the so-called powers-that-be to thwart the development and ownership of Black businesses in Harlem; and the risi
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by Gloria Dulan-Wilson ✆

~ Little Sister Gabby Douglass Makes History Winning the Gold in Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics in London, England - yaaaaay!

Everybody loves her for her grace, poise, stamina and agility - yaaaaay!

American Negroes only see her hair style, and so, completely miss the point-boooooo!

This my response to an article that recently appeared on Grio about Gabby's shock at people criticizing her hair, and her statement: "I just made history and all they can talk about is my hair

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The 90s fashion revival is upon us -- well, kind of. Our wardrobes have long been influenced by eras past, Menn Nike Lunar so it was inevitable that we look to the 10 years of loose cuts and muted colors, for inspiration two decades after the fact. No, our pants will never be as baggy as they were in 1992, and we not suggesting you sport a Joey Lawrence-inspired hooded jean vest. But we do sense that fashion is returning to the decade of all things dope, and we got the 411 on how you can add som

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converse high for price increases

Luhua 5S press peanut oil price increase to 101.9 yuan again. So easy to buy in the supermarket, Fortune 5 liters large Bean oil From 40 per barrel rose to 50, and Jin Long Yue five liters of soybean oil loading from 40 per barrel has risen to 50. After New Years Day, the reporter interviewed a number of supermarkets in Tianjin found that a lot of price increases after the oil has entered the discount sales period. In the Tesco supermarkets see, 5.436 liters Luhua 5S pressed peanut oil sales pri

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Osmond Collins - I Must Be Doing Something RIght

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Hurghada Egypt is one of the most recommended destinations for your vacation. relax, be well and set your Soule for the best sun vacation in the world. Select your hotel from several varieties between five stars, four stars, three stars and even two stars. We recommend to choose your hotel after reading client reviews and comments about the selected hotel. During your stay you can enjoy Hurghada Excursions and sightseeing tours. Buy your excursions online or from the excursions seller in Hurghad

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Jazz and Blackness

Sunday evening we attended an onstage conversation between poet Amiri Baraka and bassist Reggie Workman at Oakland's Eastside Arts Center. Actually it wasn't onstage but the esteemed gentlemen were part of the circle of artists, intellectuals and community people who turned out for the event.

Since I declined to speak at the event, I am posting my comments now. Since the age of fourteen or fifteen, I have listened to jazz. Of course I heard it growing up, especially my family moved from Fresno to
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Holding back the flood


What can one drop do?

Just one drop. Not a lot.

Added up to you and you -Two and two.

Thank you for hold this drop.

What could one drop do?

The one that's that tipping point for the flood.

 

 

By Kwasi Akyeampong

May  2011

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The body enters into a fasting state eight or so hours after the last meal......this help to reduce your cholesterol levels and blood pressure as well as your weight....
During a fast, your body generates its own energy by burning stored resources made from excess fats, carbohydrates and sugars to produce energy. The liver is the most significant organ in this economical process; it converts the fats into chemicals called ketone bodies which are three water-soluble compounds that are then use
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Save the Date: Saturday, September 1, 3-6pm

Marvin X Reading and Book signing at Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin Streets, downtown Oakland, Saturday, September 1, 2012, 3-6pm.


The living legend, the myth, the ritual, the human earthquake, the sledge hammer, the lover, the confessionist, the teacher, the poet, Marvin X will autograph his latest book The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/fables, Black Bird Press,2012, $19.95. Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, 3-6pm, at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th an
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Thank you for trusting me.

 

Thank you for trusting me.

Thank

You

For

Trusting

Me. Thank you for being me.

Thank you for being here.
Thank you for trusting me.

Thanks for the lessons learned.
by Kwasi Akyeampong
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Rare Moments in the Life and Times of Marvin X


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You're introduced to the illegal hustle
by a demon who don't trust you
just pimpin you
ready to bust some lead in your temple
If you don't follow out the commands of initiation
Do you know where your going to?
In this dark situation?
and across the nation
innocent black boys and girls are getting shot now
we're an endagered species - it's gotta stop now.

Your no criminal - Look in the mirror your a miracle

Don't let the external burn you
it's just an illusion
no body gets out
the streets. Its a we

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THE GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT ( Kemet Land )

THE GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT

IF IT can be said that nature plays favorites, then EGYPT was her favorite Child. There are several geographical features which combine to make this a unique land.

1-An isolated land

Ancient Egypt was isolated from the rest of the world by its Topography. To the west was a vast desert. To the north was the Mediterranean. To the east was the red sea. There were only two points of entry into Egypt aside from sea Routes.

A. The south.

The Nubians to the south of Egypt often proved

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by Michael Phillips  ~  

    

  Progressives have hobbled the Democratic Party and have played a big role in its drift to conservatism. Yes all the progressive allies of the Democratic Party, such as Move-on, the unions, the peace movements, the NAACP, the ACLU, environmental groups, human and civil rights groups, civil liberties groups….you name it, are all guilty.

This realization came to me after I attended a Democratic club meeting recently. I have been a member of this club for over thirty yea

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By Gloria Dulan-Wilson ~

  For me Sylvia's passing was like losing a member of my family. I've known and admired her and her family since my first eating at her then humble restaurant in 1968. Thanks to a friend, Sam Anderson, who took me there because I was homesick for home cooking, I became a regular diner of Sylvia's over the years.

That friendship and kinship was born of her eternal genteel nature, graciousness, elegance; her love of people, and her wonder food. Even when her restaurant was n

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Review of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
a play by August Wilson
Produced and directed by
Ayodele Nzinga
Performed by the Lower Bottom Playaz
at the Prescott Joseph Center

review by Marvin X

Down in the heart of West Oakland, in the so called lower bottom of the once Harlem of the West that was the end of the intercontinental railroad, there exists a group of thespians lead by a woman who can only be described as a precious jewel. What better person to inhabit the Thea
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SLAVE MAN, WHERE IS YOUR GOD?

SLAVE MAN,

WHERE IS YOUR GOD?

 

Slave Man, how did you get here, where are you from, and what is your heritage?

 

Your pain and suffering has gone on forever,

And I cannot remember when you were not here.

 

Slave Man, are you sure you want to live under these circumstances?

You do not profit from self-determination, therefore, what’s in this country for you?

 

Slave Man, tell me; where is your GOD?

 

What did you do to deserve the agony and humiliation you endure?

You people give new meaning to enslavement

tha

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Level the Playing Field--Everybody Pack!

James Holmes (AP Photo/University of Colorado); A woman in Aurora, Colorado (Reuters/ Evan Semon)


Violence is as American as cherry pie!--H. Rap Brown, aka Imam Jamil Al Amin


The murder of my child will not make your child safe.--James Baldwin





The recent mass shooting in a Colorado cinema is an essential part of American culture, a culture steeped in violence, genocide and a plethora of psycho pathologies too numerous to catalogue. In short, America is a society rooted in mental illness. The very idea of claiming equality of all men, yet practicing chattel sla
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2500 lay-offs, department shutdowns, draconian “contract” imposition underway

By Diane Bukowski ~

In the world’s largest Black-majority city outside of Africa, with the nation’s highest poverty rate, over 2500 City of Detroit workers are being laid off. The city’s federally-funded health, human services and workforce development departments are being handed over to private entities.

Meanwhile, a draconian “City Employment Terms” (CET) contract is being imposed on the remaining workers, under or

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